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Editor: Elizabeth Manning Murphy

Elizabeth Manning Murphy and Associates (EMMA)

Tel: (02) 6286 6722; mobile: 0428 866 722; fax (02) 6290 2364     Email: emmurphy@ozemail.com.au

BA(Hons) ANU Linguistics; Fellow, Commercial Education Society of Australia (FCES); Fellow, Society of Teachers in Business Education (UK) (FSBT); Associate Fellow, Australian Institute of Management (AFAIM); Distinguished Editor (DE) (IPEd award)

Services

  • Editing—All levels of editing and proofreading; project management; non-fiction; document development; writing, rewriting; plain English, hard copy or on-line
  • Other services—Training in effective writing, English grammar, plain English and editing; document design; assistance with English as a second language; desktop publishing; PowerPoint presentation design.
  • Subject fields—Academic, humanities, educational (tertiary), linguistics, psychology, business, public information
  • Media—Books, brochures, training and user manuals, house style guides, reports, journals, newsletters, voice scripts

Specific projects

Academic theses (PhD, Masters,
Honours) and academic journal articles for students and academics in Australia,
UK, USA and Japan.

Consultations and training in
editing/writing (Australian Institute of Health & Welfare)
Text editing, Attorney-General’s Department
RAPlink Newsletter (editor), 2001-09
RAAF Annual 2000-2005 (editor) (Department of Defence) (including style
guide)
Census 2001 (manual editing with client training) (Australian Bureau of
Statistics)
Betrayed and Forsaken - the official history of The Infants’ Home, Ashfield (S
Lorne-Johnson, 2001)
Author of many books on business and writing including Effective Writing:
Plain English at Work
(Australia and UK publications)

Editing/writing with learning assistance; prompt; secure; work undertaken within Australia and overseas